Last Sunday, I spoke from Isa 30:1-14, in the first part of a two talks continuing to look at why we don’t pray – part 2 is this Sunday. We also built a wall – click on the photo for a larger image, and read on to find out what it was all about…
When [...]
This Monday (12th October) I am starting a series of six evenings in church (mainly Monday nights once a month), to help people to learn to pray. I have mentioned before, but I am constantly amazed at the disciples (who remember were good Jews and therefore steeped in the Jewish tradition of prayer) after [...]
This Sunday I will be continuing to look at reasons why we don’t pray. Generally, Christians know the value of prayer, but mostly we still struggle to pray.
It has often been thus. Even in the days of Israel, keeping God at arms length served their purposes. Isaiah parodied their response:
Give us no more visions of [...]
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Why Don’t We Pray?
The Prodigal Son is an incredibly well known story (Luke 15:11-32). But often the focus is on the younger son, who leaves home with his inheritance from his not-yet-dead Father, squanders it, and returns to find and experience the grace and kindness [...]
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Why Don’t We Pray? There are deep movements of our hearts, that in the normal course of events, we are often unaware of. They surface during times of change or transition. They surface when things that we have relied on for a sense of meaning, [...]
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Why Don’t We Pray?
Part 1 – the sermon teaser.
Part 2 – the depths of our desires – the first part of what I shared on Sunday.
The second part of Sunday’s Sermon was Mary and Martha (Lk 10:38-42).
Martha and Mary are found in other gospel [...]
This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Why Don’t We Pray?Or “Why don’t we don’t we Pray? – Part 2
Part 1 can be read here. This is a short summary of the first part of what I said yesterday (Sunday 13th September) at church. The audio will be available from our website [...]
This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Why Don’t We Pray?Why don’t we pray?
If I knew the answer to that one, I could write a book, become famous …
Bill Hybels did it, in 1988, when no-one had heard of Bill Hybels or Willowcreek. “Too Busy not to Pray”. I was a [...]
Last Sunday, I invited our congregation to practice the spiritual discipline of daily prayer. You can read a summary of my talk in the previous post (somehow the words on the computer screen don’t have quite the life that they did as I spoke on Sunday!).
Towards the end of the gathering, there were a [...]
After my sermon teaser last week, perhaps I should write how I have found an answer to the question I posed? In that post, I asked what you would answer, if Jesus stood before you, and asked: “What do you want me for to do for you?”
I am sure there are lots of answers, each [...]
